A total of 1,710 people, including 800 militants, have withdrawn from Moadamiyeh, the southeastern suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus, under an agreement with the country's authorities, a local police source told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
The besieged Moadamiyeh reached an agreement with the Syrian authorities in September to gradually end the siege and grant the militants safe passage to the northern Idlib province.
Shortly before the Moadamiyeh deal was reached, another Damascus suburb, Daraya, concluded a similar agreement.